Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
Kings are the slaves of history.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
I think… if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
Everything depends on upbringing.
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
Everything intelligent is so boring.
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.
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